Online selling is also available which has free shipping on every order. You can register by going to the website below and each scout will have their own fundraising webpage to sell. Using the online page is included in the Ways to Sell Videos above.

Pie Facing – Scouts that sell greater than $600 will get to pie face a 735 Adult Leader. Who & how many depends on reaching other levels. The scouts absolutely love doing this! Refer to the Memories page for Instagram videos & photos of the 2018 pie facing.

With parent permission, if scouts $2,500 then their parent can put a whipped cream pie in their face (a number of scouts approached me last year and asked how they could earn a pie in the face).

Dave & Busters – Council will have a Dave & Busters event & scouts which sell over a $1,000 dollar amount from Show & Sell, Online or Take Orders will be get this award

Scouts will earn Amazon Gift cards based on their sales and the more they sell the larger the gift card is that they can earn. Refer to the Trails End Rewards page

If you have other specific questions then email fundraising@readingpack735.org and the Popcorn Kernel will be in touch.

2018-2019 Performance

For the 2018 – 2019 year, we sold a little over $18,000 of popcorn and our Pack retained 39% of all popcorn sold.

These funds raised covered the following enrichment events during the 2018 – 2019 year:

Pinewood Derby

Game Night Prizes

Snow tubing at Nashoba Valley

Entertainment at the Blue & Gold banquet

Overnight at Battleship Cove

Overnight at New England Base Camp

General Overview

Principle Goal

Paying your own way is a fundamental principle of Scouting. It is one of the reasons why no solicitations (requests for contributions from individuals or the community) are permitted by units. Young people in Scouting are taught early on that if they want something in life, they need to earn it.

This is why local councils have Packs participate in council-sponsored product sales (typical popcorn) or other money-earning projects.

Popcorn

For popcorn, click here for more general information on process. Further, the vendor scouting selected to help manage this process is Trails End. For our district, click here to access local Council’s site on popcorn.

Our fundraising seasons typically runs from early September to mid-October and covers 3 distribution channels:

Show & Sells – Scouts with an adult volunteer sign up for hour long shifts on Saturday & Sunday. We have shifts starting at 9AM and going to 3PM or 4PM.